The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-04-28

| WAANvA auA llb ueAIt uhu UetH klhu
uened BY the assurance that both bis pnr
poses had been accomplished, and then q
gently as day into night" he passed int
The Amerlcus Club do we'll to honor hi
memory by huch celebrations as this o
the day when he was born. He was moi
only our greatest soldier and the most dis
tinguished and representative American
VINO ever Travelled abroad, but next, aitel
Lincoln, he was our greatest President
and onr greatest Republican.
The responses to the other toasts were
aa iollows: "Keystone State" Hon. O
". Stone; Republican Party" Hon
John Dalzell, Pittsburgh; "Young Men o.
re Party" Charles +. Warwick, Esq.,
Philadelphia; political Clubs, Their
Usefulness in Party Organization" ]. p.
Foster, President Republican Club, New
York; "Iatitl for Protection" read fol
bon. William Mckinley, Jr., who was un.
nvoidably detained.
LetterH Of regrGt,were received from Ros.
coo Conkling, John s. Wise, George s.
Bouselie. William D, Kelly, Benjamin Har.
rlson. William Evarts, Robert Lincoln,
Gen. W. T. Sherman, James X. Hawley,
John Cessna, George W. Childs. Goyer.
nor Beaver, and otIerp.
1t was after midnight before the regular
programme had been concluded, and after
!hat time number OF impromptu senti.
ments were offered and resPoasea mado.
Tho affair was one Of the moot successful
ever given 10 this city. Nearly 800 par
ttcipatcd in the banquet.
,.,,, ,,,,
'A"N TWAIN TAKES a HAND.
Aud Crushes In M, InIm,,oh,, wnv tho
Grille. of G,n.r,, Grnut.
HAnrrop, C,v. A., o.. ~, -,
-, oe"' Al"' s'o ".
nun' ieuhion ol tue army ana Navy clup,
oil Connecticut, this evening the chief ad-
dress on the memory of General Grant
was mazda hv Tho IA, II. Al II p;da,,
,....",'. e ~ 1u' t'0,' ~ W. y: N'oule'
iofmeriy chaplain In the service. He
was followed by s. l.. Clemens MARX
rwain), who delivered the following char.
ac!eristic address: | will lsts;u Won with
only JUS, a lew words-just q low thousauI
words, and then rive place to a better man.
II he has been created, Lstely proat and
honosed author, Matttcw Arnold. has
been finding fault with General Grants
English, That would be fair enonph.
may bp, II the examnles NJ imnprfect Enc.
lish averaged more instances to the mage
in General Grants book than thew do IN
Mr.. Arnold's criticism unon the hook-bnt
they don't, TLauvhter and annla,,se
Ii weuld bs Iair snourb NAV be If spcb
instancea wara comn,,,ar IL i:anarni
Grants book than thav a1o in The works
OF the average standard author-but thev
are not, In truth Ganeral Grsnt'a dare.
lections in the 1natter nj grammar and
construction ara not more frennent than
are such derelpc,ions in tha worka nj a
majority Of the professional anthoys NJ onr
time, and of ali preyions times-anthora
as exclusively and pnins.takinvIv trained
10 the literary trade m was (;enersj
Grant to the trade of war. fAnn)ause
This is not a random a,ats.
ment: it is Il f.ct. and easily damon.
strable, l have at home a hook caljed
"Alodern English Literstnre its Hlemiah.
eg and Defects." bv Henrv r Braen a
Of Mr.. Arnold. In II f;nd
examples OF bad premmar and slovpnlv
English from the pena oi Sidney Smith.
Hallsm. WhA,ely. CARLYLE. both
Dis,aslis, Allison. Juu;us Blair Macaul-
ey, Shakespeare, M.llon' Gihboa. South.
ey, Bulwer, DR., Samuel Johnaon. Trench.
Lamb, SmoIloit, Wsipole. Walker {of the
Cnristouhsr North. Kirk
White, Mia. S;gourney, Walter Scott, and
Mr.. LlndIey Murray, who mado the vrs,u.
mar.
In Mr.. Arnold's psper on General
Grants book We find a humber of yram.
matical crimee, and more than several OK.
amples Of crude and s.oyenly English
lofty pace in tuat IL insIons in st oI Mtn de;n
quents just mentioned. The following
pseeage all by itself ought ia elect him:
"Alesle suggested to Grant that he might
Sherman, who had hper earv;n, w;tb
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